landflood
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landflood (plural landfloods)
- (archaic) flood; inundation
- 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, →OCLC:
- in a county where the king had before no footing , awakened all their jealousies and apprehensions of the affections of Kent and all other places; and looked like a land-flood , that might roll they knew not how far ; so that there needed no importunate solicitation to provide a remedy against this growing evil
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- “landflood”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.